Here’s the kitchen sink for April 11, 2025 of ten stories that I didn’t get to this week – with another brand-new meme from Gates Dogfish!
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Here is the kitchen sink for April 11, 2025 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:
“It Ends With Us”: See what he did there? 😉 Michael Berman discusses a ruling in the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni saga on the EDRM blog involving granting in part a motion to quash subpoenas issued to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile issued by Lively’s team.
Audiences are still skeptical about generative AI in the news: Dozens of America’s most well-known newsrooms are experimenting with chatbots to help readers pick restaurants, learn more about political candidates and dive deeper into articles. Almost have of audience respondents say they “have no interest in using a tool like this to get information”. Whoops.
Marking Its 40th Anniversary In A New Venue, ABA Techshow Experiences Growing Pains: Bob Ambrogi recaps the show, conducted for the first time in “the vast empty waste land of the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago”. As he notes, expect similar growing pains for Legalweek next year in the Javits Center.
US judge refuses OpenAI’s motion to dismiss New York Times copyright infringement claims: It’s never over ‘til it’s over. Guess what? It ain’t over. 😁 Judge Sidney Stein ruled that OpenAI had not met its burden of establishing that NYT and the Daily News should have discovered the alleged infringement more than three years before the filing of the complaint but did dismiss the claims that “regurgitations” generated by the defendants’ large language models constituted “distributions” of copies of their work.
The Pulse of Progress: Inside the Q1 2025 Update of Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Buyers Guide: Still the most comprehensive eDiscovery buyers guide there is, the Q1 2025 release of Andrew Haslam’s eDisclosure Buyers Guide is now available as discussed by Rob Robinson. This updated release reflects the ongoing collaboration between Andrew Haslam, ComplexDiscovery and EDRM.
OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters: Ruh-roh. Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months. As the article notes, “OpenAI revoked the spammers’ account after receiving SentinelLabs’ disclosure, but the four months the activity went unnoticed shows how enforcement is often reactive rather than proactive.” No kidding.
Linked Documents or Modern Attachments: Protocols to Minimize Risks in Preservation, Collection, and Review: Ari Kaplan “re-kaps” (that never gets old! 🤣) a webinar with Ari, Amy Sellars, E-Discovery Counsel at Gunster, David Horrigan, Discovery Counsel and Legal Education Director at Relativity, and Tom O’Connor, Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center discussing key issues to consider, and best practices for addressing hyperlinked files.
Motion to Compel Searching of BYOD Devices – Defendant’s Information Governance Policy Determined Outcome: Michael Berman was on fire this week with case law posts on the EDRM blog – four of them, including the two covered in this post. This one gets into BYOD devices and possession, custody and control (or lack thereof) of the company whose employees use those devices .
When AI Imitates Art: Legal and Ethical Impacts of OpenAI’s “Ghiblifying” Feature: Rob Robinson discussed the legal and ethical concerns regarding OpenAI’s latest feature within its ChatGPT framework, referred to as “Ghiblifying,” and whether AI-generated art that emulates Studio Ghibli’s distinctive animation style crosses into copyright infringement. I’m pretty sure the example picture that Rob uses to illustrate the capability is one of Rob and his daughter Holley.
Elon Musk wants to be “AGI dictator,” OpenAI tells court: OpenAI has now counter-sued Elon Musk, alleging that Musk’s “sham” bid to buy OpenAI was intentionally timed to maximally disrupt and potentially even frighten off investments from honest bidders. This elevates Elon from guest star to recurring character in the OpenAI soap opera! 🤣
ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats: OpenAI announced a significant expansion of ChatGPT’s customization and memory capabilities. For some users, it will now be able to remember information from the full breadth of their prior conversations with it and adjust its responses based on that information. As I learned this morning, it will also describe you based on all your chats. More on that next week!
Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for April 11, 2025! Back next week with another edition!
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